Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table, sentence 3

At the table you wait until everyone is seated and served, eat quietly, wait for food to be offered, and ask before taking the last piece.

Who acts: you · What happens: wait, seat, serve, eat, offer, ask · To what, where: table, everyone, last piece

This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect for everyone, greetings, goodbyes and the table» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 table	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
3	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wait	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 seated	mark
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 seated	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seated	aux:pass
9	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wait	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 served	cc
11	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 seated	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
13	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wait	advcl
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	13 eat	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wait	punct
16	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	xcomp
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 food	case
18	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wait	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 offered	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 offered	aux:pass
21	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 wait	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ask	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ask	cc
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wait	conj
25	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 taking	mark
26	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 ask	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 piece	det
28	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 piece	amod
29	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taking	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wait	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	present	you		the table		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at table=Location
2	seat	present · passive		everyone			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value
3	serve	participle					vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	eat	present	you not said here			quietly property	tree rules
5	wait	infinitive	you not said here			for food	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	offer	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»
7	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	take	gerund	you not said here	the last piece			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:221-respect-greetings-goodbyes-and-the-table.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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